After Niantic announced their plan to move the Ingress Portal | Ingress Updates [ENG]

After Niantic announced their plan to move the Ingress Portal Network (the database for the portals) to Niantic Lightship, Thia has now announced that this move has been completed. All nominations and portal edits that were made during the preparation for the move will now be processed. If a portal is considered eligible for Ingress, it will also appear.

Thia clarified that a portal submission does not guarantee a inclusion in Ingress, rather, the nomination will be added to the Niantic Lightship database, after which all Niantic games can sync them from there to their own games. This means that it is possible that a submission might appear in Pokemon GO, but not necessarily in Ingress, as each game can decide how to use Lightship’s Wayspots to populate and shape their specific gameboard.

Thia also mentioned that the move to Niantic Lightship means that submissions which were previously only visible in other games can now populate Ingress as well. Niantic also acknowledged that "the number of new Portals on the gameboard is shockingly different from what you’re used to in some countries" and that they should have taken more time to test the impact of those portals. Thia closes with suggesting Agents to, if they come along a portal with no picture, submit a photo or, if the portal does not "meet Wayfarer standards", to report it.

With this, Niantic answers questions of Portals appearing in other Niantic games, but not in Ingress without any apparent explanation, as well as questions about thousands of portals, seemingly imported from Foresquare, appearing without any quality checks or pictures. Unsurprisingly, Agent are not thrilled with this statement and are asking for the current criteria for a portal to be imported into the game, as well as the removal of the low quality portals that were imported.

Source: https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/comment/152012/#Comment_152012

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